Thoreau's nature : ethics, politics, and the wild /

Thoreau's nature : ethics, politics, and the wild /

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Author / Creator:Bennett, Jane, 1957-
Edition:New edition.
Imprint:Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2002]
©2002
Description:1 online resource (176 pages).
Language:English
Series:Modernity and political thought ; 7
Modernity and political thought ; v. 7.
Subject:
Thoreau, Henry David, -- 1817-1862 -- Ethics.
Thoreau, Henry David, -- 1817-1862 -- Knowledge -- Natural history.
Thoreau, Henry David, -- 1817-1862 -- Political and social views.
Thoreau, Henry David, -- 1817-1862.
Ethics.
Ethics.
Natural history.
Political and social views.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11404578
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ISBN:9781461715412
1461715415
9780742521407
0742521419
9780742521414
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Originally published in 1994. Reprinted with new preface and introduction.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary:Thoreau's Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild explores how Thoreau crafted a life open to 'the Wild, ' a term that marks the startling element of foreignness in every object of experience, however familiar. Thoreau's encounters with nature, Bennett argues, allowed him to resist his all-too-human tendency toward intellectual laziness, social conformity, and political complacency. Bennett pursues this theme by constructing a series of dialogues between Thoreau and our contemporaries: Foucault on identity and power, Haraway on the nature/culture of division, Hollywood celebrities on the Walden.
Other form:Print version: Bennett, Jane, 1957- Thoreau's nature. Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2002] xxxiii, 141 pages ; 23 cm. Modernity and political thought ; 7 9780742521407

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